I Want To Be A Cowboy's Sweetheart

I want to be a cowboy's sweetheart

I want to learn to rope and to ride

I want to ride o'er the plains and the desert

Out west of the Great Divide

I want to hear the coyotes howlin'

While the sun sinks in the West

I want to be a cowboy's sweetheart

The life that I love best

I want to ride Old Paint, goin' at a run

I wanna feel the wind in my face

A thousand miles from all these city lights

Goin' a cowhand's pace

I want to pillow my head near the sleeping herd

While the moon shines down from above

I want to strum my guitar and "odo-lay-ee-dee"

Oh, that's the life that I love

Now I have found my cowboy sweetheart

And he taught me to rope and to ride

And we've settled down in a California town

Out west of the great divide

Our two little cowgirls have two kids of their own

That makes me a yodelin' grandma

I'm still ridin' side-by-side with my cowboy sweetheart

He's a rootin'-tootin' cowboy grandpa